Place of Work
“(Scottish filmmaker) Margaret Tait has been making films since the early 1950s.... Many of her films are lyrical and personal.... A comparison with American Stan Brakhage and his treatment of the surroundings of his daily life and work can be useful. Yet her style is her own, with its careful framing--often exaggerated through reframing--her associative editing, and quiet and gentle pace.... Tait describes A Place of Work as ‘a close study of a house and garden in Orkeny--with something of the world beyond. A place with lifelong associations filmed in the months before leaving it....'” Regina Cornwell
• A film by Margaret Tait. (1976, 30 mins, Color)

Thriller
“In Thriller, Sally Potter has constructed a truly avant-garde work as well as one that is political in addressing feminist issues. Potter uses the Puccini opera La Boheme; Colette Laffont assumes the role of Mimi.... While, as the title suggests, Thriller treats opera in the murder-mystery form, Potter deprives us of both the spectacle and suspense associated with these forms.... Stills of elaborate past productions are contrasted with the cold and empty space in which Mimi, in the present, in Potter's fiction, now reflects on and reconsiders her role in Puccini's opera. More stills show seamstresses in the nineteenth century...laboring under appalling conditions.... ‘This is what it was like,' Potter reminds her viewers: countless women died young and in extreme poverty. Puccini's romanticization of poverty...(is) contrasted with the reality....” R.C.
• A film by Sally Potter. With Colette Laffont. (1979, 40 mins)

Attermire
“Renny Croft works almost exclusively in the landscape-film genre. Attermire, like many of his other films, was shot in Yorkshire. In part an exercise in perception, there is also poetry in Croft's filming of the moors; extraordinary transformations of light and movement occur in the film....” R.C.
• A film by Renny Croft. (1976, 18 mins, Color)

Hackney Marshes--November 4th 1977
“....John Smith (uses) urban space, with a piece of nature claimed and preserved as a sports space, and plays on the relations between buildings and field in a very formally constructed work which manipulates space, light, and color.” R.C.
• A film by John Smith. (1977, 15 mins, Silent, Color)